Future of Work - STT Education

In Pursuit of Purposeful Work

Stand Together Trust partners with policy influencers on bottom-up solutions that empower every individual to reach their full potential by deploying their unique skills and aptitudes in society.

We educate policymakers on reforms to lower education costs, expand education options, and inspire individuals to pursue purposeful work and employers to value workers based on their skills and motivation to contribute.

How We Partner to Shape Policy

Strengthen the Workforce

Empowering people to realize their full potential and deploy their skills and aptitudes to contribute to society through purposeful work.

Adopt skills-based hiring. It works.

Our nation’s primary workforce training program is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Adopt skills-based hiring. It works.

Our nation’s primary workforce training program is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Empower Americans to reach their full potential with these workforce reforms.

Strengthen the Workforce

Adopt skills-based hiring. It works.

Our nation’s primary workforce training program is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Empower Americans to reach their full potential with these workforce reforms.

Learn Everywhere

Propelling students into meaningful careers through a robust marketplace of alternative education pathways that equip students with the skills to pursue purposeful work.

Provide students with better access to short-term programs.

Learn how this program provides a way up for low-wage workers.

Provide students with better access to short-term programs.

Learn how this program provides a way up for low-wage workers.

Flip the Script with These Innovative Finance Options

Increase innovation with alternative finance models.

Fund Students, Not Systems

Creating the conditions for bottom-up solutions that invest in individuals and their potential rather than education and workforce systems.

Empower Individuals

Provide students with better access to short-term programs.

Canceling student debt won’t fix higher education. Donors must think bigger.

Learn how this program provides a way up for low-wage workers.

Partner Resources

Address federal, state, and local government workforce challenges with Opportunity@Work’s STARs Public Sector Hub.

Learn how state governments can simplify and streamline the structures and tools that help individuals fund lifelong learning with Third Sector’s SIMPLE Framework.

Access NCSL’s policy briefs on state degree elimination, state workforce system redesign, and Earn to Learn’s matched savings program.

Address federal, state, and local government workforce challenges with Opportunity@Work’s STARs Public Sector Hub.

Learn how state governments can simplify and streamline the structures and tools that help individuals fund lifelong learning with Third Sector’s SIMPLE Framework.